Snell Supplies Kahunas For Indian TV

Snell has announced that Vendhar TV, an upcoming Tamil-language general entertainment channel serving India's Chennai region, has deployed two Kahuna multi-format production switchers to drive its news and entertainment programming.
"When designing a studio that could meet our requirements well into the future, we knew we were making the right choice with the Snell switchers," said P. Azhagudurai, technical manager, Vendhar TV.
"Kahuna's performance, along with its ability to support multiple input and output formats, and powerful features for chroma keys, macros, and effects, really set it apart from the other switchers we evaluated."
Vendhar TV installed a two-M/E Kahuna switcher in its news studio to support its four daily 30-minute news bulletins, together with a one-M/E switcher in the program studio for live production and postproduction of a wide range of entertainment programs.
Although the channel will be initially uplinking an SD signal, the broadcast facility features an all-HD workflow that will support HD broadcasting in the future.
"Vendhar TV is an exciting new example of how the Indian broadcast market is rapidly evolving to reflect a widely diverse audience and deliver tailored content to many different groups of viewers," said Amit Daftary, regional head, Middle East and South Asia at Snell.
"Our switchers provide the perfect platform upon which Vendhar TV can build an operation that will serve its needs now and into the future as the broadcasting landscape continues to grow and change."
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